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it's funny, my dad used to say growing up that he could teach us anything but he couldn't teach us to care and he couldn't teach us to feel. >> couldn't teach you passion. so there is a part of me that says you're born with it and i am guilty. i mean, if anything i have to control it because i... that's probably the biggest challenge bag c.e.o. you have to... you're talking to so many people now and you have to be very focused and be very ... and yes you have to show your passion but you have to be very thoughtful. i remind them constantly we're like a cruise ship in the ocean. we're not a speedboat that's... because of our size. >> all that you project are what you want your company to project. so you've become c.e.o. symbol. >> and as long as it's about core values and uniting people and building great teams, i think that that's... it's not just up to me. it's fine if i do, but i believe christopher does and when the c.f.o.s saysy speaks to the street, that's what she projects. we're all singing off the same hymn sheet and we're only hiring like-minded people who believe in the same
it's funny, my dad used to say growing up that he could teach us anything but he couldn't teach us to care and he couldn't teach us to feel. >> couldn't teach you passion. so there is a part of me that says you're born with it and i am guilty. i mean, if anything i have to control it because i... that's probably the biggest challenge bag c.e.o. you have to... you're talking to so many people now and you have to be very focused and be very ... and yes you have to show your passion but you...
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the need to both of us wanting to balance china a little bit pulls us together geostrategically. so i think one way or another india and america are doomed to be friends and i think this is the beginning of a new relationship. but it's going to build slowly. remember, you know, india has a deep, deep non-align tradition. it has a socialist political elite that is still very powerful. it has a gandhi pacifist strain that bumps up against some of the elements of american foreign policy. so i don't think we're going to rush into each other's arms but i think this is going to be a slow-building relationship between the world's two biggest multiethnic democracies. we have a lot in common. >> rose: how does the united states get india to look at pakistan with a better perspective? >> well, you're right, charlie. i mean you talk to any indian official and it always reminds me of talking to israelis 20 years ago and yasser arafat and the p.l.o. when they're talking about pakistan, these indian officials. so it's a deep neural jim relationship. it's centered in the dispute over kashmir an
the need to both of us wanting to balance china a little bit pulls us together geostrategically. so i think one way or another india and america are doomed to be friends and i think this is the beginning of a new relationship. but it's going to build slowly. remember, you know, india has a deep, deep non-align tradition. it has a socialist political elite that is still very powerful. it has a gandhi pacifist strain that bumps up against some of the elements of american foreign policy. so i...
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people sit here and they use c.b.o. estimates to tell you conclusively what's going to happen 13 years from now. >> rose: so what would you do as an alternative to c.b.o. estimates? >> i'm the only person, i think, at the table, who's actually negotiated with c.b.o. on cost estimates. >> don't pull your old c.b.o. tricks out. (laughter) >> c.b.o. is the fairest scorer in washington. and so if this is fair, what c.b.o. always does is they tilt about this much toward the party in power and we pulled them over there and they tried to help us get across the finish line in every little phrase. >> rose: so you're waiting for an announcement from seeny this will be... >> no, you're not. they're telling you you're waiting for c.b.o. because what you're really waiting for is a large block of undecided voters in the mouse who aren't there yet and you can't get your c.b.o. estimate until you have all your votes lined up because you're going to make deals to get those votes. >> rose: wait a minute. so therefore nancy pelosi does no
people sit here and they use c.b.o. estimates to tell you conclusively what's going to happen 13 years from now. >> rose: so what would you do as an alternative to c.b.o. estimates? >> i'm the only person, i think, at the table, who's actually negotiated with c.b.o. on cost estimates. >> don't pull your old c.b.o. tricks out. (laughter) >> c.b.o. is the fairest scorer in washington. and so if this is fair, what c.b.o. always does is they tilt about this much toward the...
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so i think that's what drew us in. one of the things peter singer talks about in his book about saving lives is he says, you know, we do our what reference set does. so if you see somebody in your reference set doing what feels right to you and you see them having success and actually making change, you're more liabilityly to act and be at your best. i think for us sitting around that table, we were sitting with our reference set and we were hearing amazing things we didn't expect to hear. >> rose: what's the metric of success? >> of the giving pledge? >> i think it's saying that we've gotten people earlier in their life. this reference group of people and this set of billionaires to think earlier in their life about how they're going to give money back. whether it's during their lifetime or at their death, but that they plan for it. they haven't pushed that decision off. and they've started to think about it and get going. if we've done that and said that is the way to think about philanthropy, you should think about
so i think that's what drew us in. one of the things peter singer talks about in his book about saving lives is he says, you know, we do our what reference set does. so if you see somebody in your reference set doing what feels right to you and you see them having success and actually making change, you're more liabilityly to act and be at your best. i think for us sitting around that table, we were sitting with our reference set and we were hearing amazing things we didn't expect to hear....
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would use. it has to use a code which involves the transmission of information along these long axons which form the nerves for example the optic nerve. the transmission of that information is by these empulses which is what we hear when we make these recordings. the picture will be the image on the screen and the sound will be the recording coming from the brain cell. now in the first image, in the first film what we're going to see is a set of stimuli that are causing changes in the activity of a cell recorded from primary visual cortex and the first segment of the film is simply going to show the map of what we call the receptive field which is simply the region of the retina within which visual stimuli can influence the firing of the cell. first you hear static, you're hearing the brain's activity. the point of the next segment of the film is to show not only is the firing of the cell is specific to where on the retina the image falls but this particular cell will only be activated when the
would use. it has to use a code which involves the transmission of information along these long axons which form the nerves for example the optic nerve. the transmission of that information is by these empulses which is what we hear when we make these recordings. the picture will be the image on the screen and the sound will be the recording coming from the brain cell. now in the first image, in the first film what we're going to see is a set of stimuli that are causing changes in the activity...
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it was not for us. we are there to be positive. >> charlie: is there a lot of difference in terms of the different people they make or the consortiums that make nuclear energy plants in the technology, in the nature of the plants? >> we are very, very smaller number to be able to a third generation plus factors. of course when we are in competition with people delivering generation it means like less concrete. it's so less expensive. but in the u.s. or in europe it would be absolutely impossible now to build up plans. >> charlie: why isn't the mow momentum to nuclear faster? >> because in our countries, it's always long lasting. as i say to build a nuclear plant in the u.s. you have to be licensed. it takes five years. so afterwards.... >> charlie: do you think that it's a bad idea or a good idea. >> you have to protect it. it takes time. in some countries i think that this nuclear resonance is somewhere now started. it's a decision to allocate or loan guarantees. we have been awarded $2 billion for a n
it was not for us. we are there to be positive. >> charlie: is there a lot of difference in terms of the different people they make or the consortiums that make nuclear energy plants in the technology, in the nature of the plants? >> we are very, very smaller number to be able to a third generation plus factors. of course when we are in competition with people delivering generation it means like less concrete. it's so less expensive. but in the u.s. or in europe it would be...
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history tells us this. and i think the... probably determinative evidence that i put forward is you see entrepreneurship everywhere. but let me visit with you about this. i got my ph.d. in 1973 as an economist. i took a lot of courses in international development the doctrine among academics in the united states was you would never see development in india and you would never see development in china. they were culturally incapable of ever entering the first world as it was called back then. boy are economists wrong. you know, you've been to china, you've been to india they are hyper entrepreneurial and i might say what gave me a lot of optimism-- if found cause to be optimist nick iraq-- they had population. our traders, you know, there are diseasing being forled. they're informal businesses, unfortunately, because we can't get into a modern economy with informalal businesses. but daily life given to anybody is to trade stuff, to make stuff to trade stuff to buy stuff to sell. >> rose: some people come back at you and say "i
history tells us this. and i think the... probably determinative evidence that i put forward is you see entrepreneurship everywhere. but let me visit with you about this. i got my ph.d. in 1973 as an economist. i took a lot of courses in international development the doctrine among academics in the united states was you would never see development in india and you would never see development in china. they were culturally incapable of ever entering the first world as it was called back then....
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stay with us. farezakaria is here, editor at large for "time" mazin his ory how to rtore the americanream, appearance in the current issue of "tim magazine. the television special in the same topic will on n this weekend. i am pleased to have fareed zakaria bac at is tle especially ttalkabout how to store the american dream. take me back to a point that perhaps america was at its strongest wor war ii. we we the victor. itas, anything, the ne 50 years would a solidification of the amican century. you know, 's ieresting that people all remember the 50s and 1960s as the golden age of the american middle-cls and it was but it'smportanto rememberhat the pre-conditions were. 1945, the rest of the world has been desoyed i some cas quite literally. and the most important manufacturing centers of the world which were in europe and to a less exextent in japan had been totally destroyed. we're the only ones with the manufacturing capacity ft, we loan money to the rest of the world or give in the some cases as
stay with us. farezakaria is here, editor at large for "time" mazin his ory how to rtore the americanream, appearance in the current issue of "tim magazine. the television special in the same topic will on n this weekend. i am pleased to have fareed zakaria bac at is tle especially ttalkabout how to store the american dream. take me back to a point that perhaps america was at its strongest wor war ii. we we the victor. itas, anything, the ne 50 years would a solidification of the...
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and i used to borrow a phrase from john f. kennedy, and tell people at the time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining. and we weren't doing that in the middle part of this decade. unfortunately, we not only had the budget deficit at the end of this period we've been through the recession in the 1990s. but we went into the crisis with the highest budget deficit in the world. >> rose: tell me what big society means. is this an important idea that we haven't seen before or is it simply one more person. >> there is such. >> rose: this is how we see the balance. >> i guess what it would-- the way i think about it is that there is such a thing in society t is just not the same thing as the state. and that i think where this from previous conservative thinking in this country at least s that we were very focused on the individual. and there's much more emphasis in what we are trys to do on the community, on the family, on society. and-- . >> rose: on nongovernment institutions. >> nongovernment institutions, understanding that t
and i used to borrow a phrase from john f. kennedy, and tell people at the time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining. and we weren't doing that in the middle part of this decade. unfortunately, we not only had the budget deficit at the end of this period we've been through the recession in the 1990s. but we went into the crisis with the highest budget deficit in the world. >> rose: tell me what big society means. is this an important idea that we haven't seen before or is it simply...
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our work takes us away from our life. it's a very unusual thing. >> charlie: regardless of how much exposure we have to the world there's always a part of you that just wants to be home. >> well, we were so lucky with work we get to travel and meet such interesting people and doing super exciting things all the time so -- actually neil and i were talking about how actresses don't care about being married because we get to dressed up all the time and want to be in sweat pants at home. >> charlie: congratulations. black swan opens in theatres. thank you very much. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
our work takes us away from our life. it's a very unusual thing. >> charlie: regardless of how much exposure we have to the world there's always a part of you that just wants to be home. >> well, we were so lucky with work we get to travel and meet such interesting people and doing super exciting things all the time so -- actually neil and i were talking about how actresses don't care about being married because we get to dressed up all the time and want to be in sweat pants at...
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i think he used the word "by-product." i may not be right on that but he saw this as not the primary raison d'etre of the business. >> and how do we get to where stockholder max myization became the end all? >>itis a good question? we became very short-termist and focused on realization of asset values, leverage as much as you possibly can. we know the story. we need to get back to... and i do believe the current climate is one in which this conversation can be seriously had, which may not have been true five or ten years ago back to a focus on... one way of putting this is sustainable business development. what is the objective of a board to which the shareholders have trust the capital it is sustainably developed with profitable business. how do you do that? clearly you can't be sustainably profitable unless you're providing rural services to customers. secondly you need people engagements. your own people need to be engaged and committed to a business and that carries a whole load of implications in management terms, in
i think he used the word "by-product." i may not be right on that but he saw this as not the primary raison d'etre of the business. >> and how do we get to where stockholder max myization became the end all? >>itis a good question? we became very short-termist and focused on realization of asset values, leverage as much as you possibly can. we know the story. we need to get back to... and i do believe the current climate is one in which this conversation can be seriously...